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UNIT EIGHT INFERENCE [00:05.38]Number 1 Listen to the speakers.What items are they talking about? [00:11.00]Write the number in the circle beside the pictures. [00:15.20]1.It's used for cutting paper. It has two metal blades. [00:21.84]Put your finge
A new study says that a global agreement on climate change will come too late to save the majority of the world's coral reefs. The research comes as the Queensland state government announces a new multi-million dollar plan to protect the Great Barri
By Al Pessin Amsterdam 24 October 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in the Netherlands for a NATO defense ministers' meeting, where he says he will press member countries to live up to the commitments their leaders made last year to increas
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 May 2006 On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, Ethiopian journalists and others in Kenya are calling for the Ethiopian government to release more than a dozen journalists
AS IT IS 2013-05-08 Freedom House: Only 14 percent of the World's People Have a Free Press Welcome to As It Is, the daily current affairs magazine show from VOA Learning English. Today we hear about a new film aimed at keeping girls around the world
By Al Pessin Pentagon 31 October 2006 The U.S. Defense Department is taking a new approach in its battle against Islamist militants around the world - it is moving to expand its press operation. Officials say the goals are to counter terrorist propa
Universal Action Now is the theme of the upcoming International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. From Washington, VOA's William Eagle reports that among the factors that will be discussed at the conference are a lack of political will to allocate fun
Free Press Eludes Burma Despite End of Censorship This week, newspapers in Burma will hit newsstands without ministry censorship for the first time since 1962. For the staff at The Myanmar Times, a Rangoon-based weekly, this is the first editorial me
Media Group: Press Freedom Slipping in Some Countries A new Reporters Without Borders index cites hot spots in the Middle East, Africa and Asia as being among the worst offenders of press freedom. The journalism rights group also says there has been
Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press The African Union has launched an effort to rid East Africa of colonial-era defamation and sedition laws. Since independence, many countries have used them to clamp down on freedom of the press. The effort to have
Russians Rally for Press Freedom, Truth 俄罗斯为新闻自由的集会 MOSCOW Russian opposition supporters took to Moscows streets on Sunday to defend press freedom they allege is being replaced by government propaganda. It's a direct connection,
By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 13 May 2008 The former president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association says lawyers will continue to protest until the country's judiciary is restored. Claudia Blume reports from Hong Kong. Muneer Malik says Pakistan'
By Ravi Khanna Washington 06 March 2008 As Pakistan's two main political parties try to form a coalition government, lawyers continue to protest, pressing for the reinstatement of judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf. Some prominent lawyers in
By Andre de Nesnera Washington, DC 12 December 2006 watch US Press report This week marks the 215th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, which grants specific political privileges to American citizens. One important section of the Bill of Rights, know
By Michael Bowman Washington 13 April 2008 Senior U.S. legislators of both political parties say critical questions remain unanswered concerning America's strategy in Iraq, despite days of testimony before Congress by the top U.S. military commander
By Nancy Palus Dakar 21 April 2008 Throughout West Africa gold, bauxite, uranium and other lucrative minerals are being extracted from the land, but local communities benefit little or in many cases lose out. Human-rights and development experts at a
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 16 October 2007 A new survey on press freedom ranks the isolated nation of Eritrea worst among 169 countries. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the Horn of Africa country gained the dubious distinction after four reporters
By Ricci Shryock Dakar 09 November 2009 Legislation recently passed in Togo gives the government power to seize equipment, suspend and even organize hearings against media professionals that make what it deems serious errors. Media rights activists
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 15 September 2007 A journalist and a government press officer are being detained in the tiny West African country Gambia, despite a court order releasing them on bail. The media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has called
For 17 months, until he left the job in September 2007, Tony Snow was the White House press secretary, the voice of the Bush administration. Now, he is being remembered and mourned by the president he served, and the reporters who sparred with him i